Chapter 231 Religion

"Praise Heavenly Father that you are back safe and sound, Narberal."

A young girl with long wavy brown hair and bright agate-green eyes put down her luggage and hugged a beautiful lady who also had brown hair.

"Well, thanks to the attack by unknown terrorists, my vacation in Naples was ruined. I didn't even get Starita's pizza." Narberal shrugged and fell carelessly on the comfortable sofa at home. "Heavenly Father also You didn’t bless me much, mom, I still thought about meeting that handsome Chinese guy again in Naples.”

"Respect yourself, Narberal," Ms. Romanel said seriously. "The love and wisdom of Heavenly Father are not used in this kind of place."

Then she turned around and made the sign of the cross on her chest, praying and whispering devoutly, asking God to forgive her daughter's disrespectful words.

Narberal rolled her eyes. Unlike her mother, who was a devout Catholic, she had no religious beliefs at all.

"Where's dad?"

"He has been very busy during this time. There have been suspected terrorist attacks in some places in Europe recently... Please protect your devout believers and protect their destiny from any twists and turns..." Ms. Romanel said. Half began to pray quietly again.

"This is the reason why I don't want to believe in religion...I don't have the ability to memorize the entire "Prayer Manual", nor can I make up a new prayer anytime and anywhere..." Narberal sighed and whispered muttered.

In view of the continuous attacks in Europe during this period - especially in Naples a dozen hours ago, unknown terrorists were said to have launched attack drones. The alert level in Rome has been raised several levels, and her My father is the chief of a police station in Rome, so he is naturally very busy during this time.

"Mom's prayer seems to have changed... forget it." Narberal didn't want to dwell on this, and slumped on the sofa staring at the crystal chandelier on the ceiling in a daze.

"Today is Mass day. I am going to the church to attend Mass. After receiving the 'holy wafer', you can share the Lord's wisdom with me." Ms. Romanel said.

Holy bread... Narberal remembers that it was a ceremony set up by the church to commemorate the sacrifice of Jesus' body and blood to forgive mankind's sins. Ordinary believers can receive a piece of bread, which represents the body of the Lord, and the bishop can receive wine. Represents the blood of the Lord.

When she thought of this, she couldn't help but think of a joke she had heard before: After Jesus was resurrected, he was angry when he saw crosses all over the streets to commemorate him: "Why do they think I will like crosses? Could it be that Kennedy would like it after he was resurrected?" Have you seen the streets full of sniper rifles?”

But Narberal did not dare to tell such a blasphemous joke in front of her mother, and she did not really want to eat the Lord's flesh, so she lay on the sofa and politely echoed a few words before sending her mother off.

After being in a daze for a while, she got up from the sofa and was about to take a bath when she suddenly spotted a black bird on the windowsill from the corner of her eye.

After looking carefully for a while, Narberal realized that this was actually a crow.

"Why are there crows?"

Crows served as God’s messengers in the Bible. In the story of the Book of Kings, God told the prophet Elijah to hide by a river to the west, and the crows would bring him food.

So Narberal didn't feel any fear, but instead approached it with some curiosity.

The crow did not fly away, and even tilted its head in a humane manner, staring straight at her with its mung bean-sized eyes.

"Whoosh——"

A small flying knife penetrated the crow's body. It whined and fell feebly from the sky.

"Ah, leader, your behavior will be condemned by the Animal Protection Association!" Fingel exclaimed.

Lu Mingfei didn't explain. He just got out of the car and walked over to pick up the crow body that had been pierced by a flying knife. There was a hazy golden mist in his eyes, as if he was feeling something.

"Is it related to Odin?" Caesar's face was serious, and the palms under his windbreaker were already holding the Desert Eagle. "There are two crows perched on Odin's shoulders. They are Hugin, which represents 'thinking', and 'memory'. 'The Munin, they are Odin's eyes, flying around the world and reporting to him what they see every day; while other gods are feasting, Odin will think about what his mind and memory tell him."

The golden mist in Lu Mingfei's eyes dissipated and he threw the dead crow into the trash can aside. Unlike what he imagined, there were no traces of Chaos on this crow.

"No, it's just an ordinary creature." He shook his head, "I hope it has something to do with Odin... Some enemies are more difficult to deal with than false gods."

"A more difficult enemy?" Caesar was confused and looked at Fingel, but Fingel also spread his hands in confusion, saying that he didn't know either.

"demon."

"Devil?" Caesar was stunned. "It seems that our world is in the style of magic and mythology?"

"You can think of it as a false god or alien... It will not be too anxious to destroy humans with brute force, but will lurk among humans to confuse or corrupt humans through preaching, making humans invisibly become its slaves... ...The kind that cannot be saved." Lu Mingfei whispered.

Out of caution against the power of chaos, he did not speak directly about the existence of the All-Changing Demon Lord.

"Preaching..." Caesar frowned.

There have been cases in the past where dragons have awakened, bewitched ordinary people to establish sects and turned them into deadpools. However, dragons confuse ordinary people by pretending to be the "gods" believed in human religions... Theoretically speaking, this is not very possible. Perhaps, dragons are quite arrogant in nature and look down upon human beings. They should not bother to do this kind of thing that lowers their own status to win over the mortals.

But if the enemy really did this...Caesar found himself unable to deal with it for a while.

"Is this why you came to the church?" He sighed and looked at the magnificent Virgin Mary Cathedral not far away. The statue of the Virgin Mary holding the Holy Child stood at the top of the front facade of the door.

He remembered that he seemed to have seen this sentence in a book: "To conquer a continent, a missionary is more effective than an army."

What's more, creatures at the level of the Dragon King or Odin are no different from gods to mortals. As long as they are willing to put down their bodies and show some "miracles", let alone believers, they are full of desire to realize their "wishes". It won't take long for humans to fall into it.

The power of ideas is far greater than guns. Although Caesar would shout "Hallelujah", he was not a believer, but he did not dare to think that one day in the future, the statue of Jesus would become synonymous with the devil or the Dragon King. If the secret party wants to slay the dragon, it must first step over thousands of fanatical believers.

"Well... I hope the Middle Eastern religion next door has not been affected. Those lunatics will take out knives and fight the heretics on the spot... Oh, and there will be bombs." Fingel said.

"It would be quite troublesome to start the investigation from the church. In addition to religious temple-level churches like the Virgin Mary, there are probably more than 700 churches in Rome. If every one of them needs to be investigated, then our 'Roman Holiday' It will be extended to one month.”

"What's more, looking at the whole of Europe...the most indispensable thing is churches." Caesar felt a little tricky.

"Do you want to notify the family's manpower to assist?" Secretary Patsy, who had been listening carefully behind them, spoke up.

He acted as Caesar's driver, secretary and bodyguard. The Gattuso family seemed to be quite at ease with him. Apart from him, there were no other bodyguards to protect Caesar.

"No need for the moment, we... still lack key evidence. And even the Gattuso family... can't easily offend the entire Catholic sect." Caesar had a headache and couldn't help but look at Lu Mingfei, " What would you do if it were you?"

"Purify them all." Lu Mingfei's answer was quite concise.

"Okay, pretty standard fanatic approach." Caesar suddenly realized that it was not too much for the Gattuso family to offend Catholicism.

"Then let's start the investigation from the Virgin Mary Church. Let's assume that the devil...or the Dragon King wants to corrupt and bewitch mankind with the highest efficiency, so he will definitely choose the most influential temple-level church. Such a church will There are not many in Rome." Caesar thought for a while and gave his preliminary suggestions.

"By the way..." Fingel raised his hand, "I seem to remember that the largest church in the world is not far from us, right?"

"You didn't say St. Peter's Basilica? It's right in the Vatican. Let's drive there..." Caesar replied subconsciously, then realized something was wrong, "Damn it."

The Vatican... it is indeed technically the "largest church in the world".